A female Mallard with some of her recently hatched brood
My daily trot around Riverside and Slyfield tip finally gave up a Yellow-legged Gull. A near adult. Been hoping for one for ages. With 6 new-in adult LBBG suggesting some spring movement? Gadwall on the Wey & a Mallard with at least 6 ducklings already - #spring #patchgold
White-tailed Eagle wasn’t on the menu today but one heading South high over Riverside with a caravan of 3 ‘tiny’ Buzzards was a bit of a shock. Presumably one of the south coast birds? Looked like a 4/5CY #patchgold #birdsseenin2026 #surreybirds
A Coot is feeding in a marshy pool among lots of brownish rushy vegetation.
A Coot is feeding in a marshy pool among lots of brownish rushy vegetation.
A Coot is feeding in a marshy pool among lots of brownish rushy vegetation.
Yeah, Glaucous Gulls are great but the real #patchgold today at Girdle Ness was this Coot on the St Fittick's wetlands. Only my second ever record here and perhaps only the fourth or fifth ever daytime record.
#Birds #BirdingScotland #PatchBirding #UKWildlife
Month two down and Feb delivered some expected #WestrayBirding year ticks and a few I might struggle to get in the second winter period including Mistle Thrush (aye, usually only get one or two a year here), (Euro) White-front (didn’t get last year) and Taiga Bean geese, and #patchgold Stock Dove.
After a week away in Scotland, back on patch at Branston Island. 3 Glossy Ibis still, Sand Martin nfy then just found a Green-winged Teal.
#patchgold
#PWC2026
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Stock Dove in flight showing the upper wing and rump against a blue sky. Westray, Orkney Isles, 23 February 2026
Stock Dove in flight showing the underside and underwing against a blue sky. Westray, Orkney Isles, 23 February 2026
#WestrayBirding #PatchGold (no, not the blue sky) - only the third #Westray record of Stock Dove 🙂 which coincides with birds on Orkney Mainland and at @northronbirdobs.bsky.social in recent weeks (I know it’s not the latter bird cos that one got done by a Hen Harrier). #PWC2026
An unexpected addition to my Cramlington patch list - the wandering White-tailed Eagle heading north after a fly over Holywell and Hartley this morning - picked this up as it drifted in from the east over the A189 and drifting north west over Northburn/E Hartford.
#NEbirding #patchgold
Firecrest, Oxford
💥 patch mega 💥
An urban Firecrest in the Lye Valley, Oxford this morning, only the second here in over 7 years!
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#patchgold
#ukbirding
Inner city #patchgold this morning, with the first Woodcock since Nov 24 in Boundary Brook woods. My 7th Woodcock record in over 7 years, but the first outside of November/December. Perhaps an elusive wintering bird? 🤯
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#ukbirding
Superb find Jack! Really highlights the value of working a patch! Now we just need to work out how many points it's worth...
#patchgold
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116 species for #patchbirding 2025
2 lifers .. shorelark & firecrest ,a record count of 6 gw egrets a #patchgold black redstart are some of my many highlights
2 new butterfly … wall brown and clouded yellow
can’t wait to do it all again tomorrow 💪🏻
Happy new year everyone 🥳
A #patchgold on todays #patchbirding
A female black redstart 😍 only my 3rd ever here
it was joined by a rock pipit and a few meadow pipits and 2 pied wags over the high tide and then disappeared into Garston docks .
#ukbirding
Radde's Warbler, Westray, Orkney Isles, 5 November 2025
Radde's Warbler, Westray, Orkney Isles, 5 November 2025
Radde's Warbler, Westray, Orkney Isles, 5 November 2025
Firecrest, Westray, Orkney Isles, 5 November 2025
5 Nov fireworks 💥 on Westray today! Not one, but two isle firsts! 🙅♂️ First up was Orkney's 11th Radde's Warbler (second this autumn and the latest ever recorded in the county) which was followed minutes later by a Firecrest - in the same bush! Pure #PatchGold! #PWC2025 #WestrayBirding
A male Gadwall is flying against a grey sky, showing the underside of its wings.
A male Gadwall is flying against a grey sky, showing the upperside of its wings.
Proper #patchgold today in St Fittick's Park with this drake Gadwall on the main marsh. It's only my fourth ever record here and the first for five years.
#Birds #BirdingScotland #PatchBirding #UKWildlife
Pure #PatchGold!
10 Crossbill @bibbeyswildfarms.bsky.social this morning!
It is so energising, inspiring and uplifting to fall in love with nature every day!
Every experience feels just as powerful as the first.
I would highly recommend that you fall in love with nature too! 😎
Treecreeper head coming around a tree trunk
Treecreeper in a tree
Treecreeper climbing a tree
This Treecreeper at John O’Groats this morning was #PWC2025 #patchgold Looked a bit frosty in the dull light
#CaithnessBirds
It's been a slow but steady few months on the patch near St Albans. At the weekend, a Wigeon was new for the year. But today, I found a #patchgold Dartford Warbler. Patch tick (29 years!) & Herts rarity. Thanks to @rupertevershed.bsky.social for the warbler pic. #PWC2025 @patchbirding.bsky.social
#Patchgold on today’s afterwork #PatchBirding walk. a migrant DARTFORD WARBLER with at least 3 Stonechats (1 male, 2 females) at the Hothfield Flood Storage Reservoir. Patch Tick !!!! ✅✔️ ☑️ That is species # 105 for #PWC2025. Also 5 very distant Hirundines (Swallows/H Martins). #Kentbirding
Would you Adam and Steve it. The Franklin’s Gull is still here! It flew past the house and away to the east mid-morning. An otherwise uneventful day until end of play when a scan of the village bay revealed a #PatchGold Red-necked Grebe! A #WestrayBirding tick 🙅🏻♂️ and only the third isle record.
Big arrival at Balephuil, Tiree this am: 2 Yellow-browed Warblers, 9 Coal Tit (record count), 1 Great Tit, 12 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Treecreeper #PatchGold, 28 Fieldfare, 120 Redwing, 7 Blackcap, 4 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler & 6 Goldcrest #BirdingScotland #PWC2025
Great Tit #PatchGold! in the Balephuil, Tiree garden today, also 2 Coal Tit still, plus an arrival of 2 Willow Warbler, 5 Chiffchaff, 6 Blackcap, 2 Dunnock & 21 Chaffinch, also Slavonian Grebe at Loch a' Phuill #BirdingScotland
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